IGCSE and GCSE · Years 10-11
IGCSE Additional Mathematics tutors
Taken alongside IGCSE Mathematics, usually in Years 10 and 11. The content overlaps heavily with the first term of AS Pure, which is precisely why it is worth doing well rather than merely passing: a student who consolidates it properly starts A Level a term ahead.
- USD 20-28 per hour
- One-to-one, online
- Free 1-hour trial class
What IGCSE and GCSE actually demands
The first qualifications that appear on a transcript, and the point at which most families first consider tutoring. Two years, usually eight to ten subjects, and a step up in independence that catches out students who coasted through Year 9.
A bridging qualification taken alongside IGCSE Maths that introduces calculus, functions and more demanding algebra a year early. Schools use it to prepare students for A Level; students often experience it as the moment maths stopped being easy.
Where IGCSE Additional Mathematics students lose marks
- Differentiation and integration learned as procedures without any sense of what they mean, which collapses at A Level
- Weak surd, indices and logarithm manipulation making otherwise straightforward questions unmanageable
- Underestimating it because it runs alongside the IGCSE, then discovering the standard is close to AS
- Trigonometric identities treated as memorisation rather than as tools to be selected
Is this the right subject at this level?
Strong IGCSE mathematicians heading for A Level Maths, Further Maths, engineering or physics. It is not a subject to take for the extra grade: it is genuinely harder than the IGCSE it sits beside.
What it costs
USD 20-28 per 60-minute one-to-one lesson at IGCSE and GCSE, the same rate in every city we teach in. Billed monthly against lessons actually taught, with no prepaid blocks and no minimum commitment.
Paired lessons (2 students) are USD 14-20 per student. Small group lessons (up to 6 students) are USD 10-14 per student. What each format is good for is here.
How we teach it
One-to-one, online, with a shared whiteboard. The first thing we establish is the exact syllabus the student is entered for: schools do not always publish the version they actually enter, and preparing for the wrong paper structure wastes a term.
After that the work is diagnostic: a past paper under timed conditions, marked together against the published scheme, to find out where the marks are genuinely going. That is almost always more useful than covering the syllabus again more slowly. The full process is here.
Additional Mathematics: questions parents ask
How much harder is Additional Maths than IGCSE Maths?
Considerably, and the gap surprises people because the two run side by side. Additional Maths introduces calculus, functions and more demanding algebra at close to AS standard. Students who treat it as an extra IGCSE tend to discover the difference around the first mock.
Does it help with A Level Maths?
Substantially, if it is learned properly rather than crammed. The overlap with the first term of AS Pure is large, so a student who consolidates differentiation and integration here starts A Level with real breathing room.
Who should not take it?
Anyone whose IGCSE Maths is not already secure. Adding a harder parallel course to an unstable foundation reliably damages both grades. The better move is to make single Maths genuinely strong first.